démêlés
\de.me.le\
The verdict
“démêlés” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,137. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,137
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de démêlé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-demeles · démêlés · French
démêlés · rank #30,137 · 11 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,137
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Dufresne
Nearest frequency peer: Dufresne (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « démêlés »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dude
dude
69,867 corpus weight
- Dufresne
Dufresne
69,865 corpus weight
- démêlés
démêlés
69,864 corpus weight
- dérangeait
dérangeait
69,863 corpus weight
- eat
eat
69,862 corpus weight
- effacent
effacent
69,861 corpus weight
What this shows « démêlés » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | démêlés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \de.me.le\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #30,137 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « démêlés »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around démêlés (IPA \de.me.le\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #30,137 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de démêlé.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for démêlés, with forms such as "ddémêlés", "demeles", and "dméêlés". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "Demers", "demies", "désolés", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is démêlés, spelled D-É-M-Ê-L-É-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de démêlé.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddémêlés
- demeles
- dméêlés
- démlêés
- démmêlés
- démêllés
- démêlsé
- démêléss
- démêéls
- déêmlés
- édmêlés
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of démêlés - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).